How to Pick Your Fitness Goals 2

You write down what you want and why. Your why’s will lead you to the real things that you want.

After you have these 1 or 2 things that are most important to you, then you will need to move on to the next step.

That is what do you do next?

Okay, so let’s go back to the example we used in the last post. There were 3 – you will lose body fat.

Now you have to ask yourself some questions and then write down a concrete plan based upon the answers you get.

So, how do you go about losing body fat?

Obviously there are several ways to do this. In the interests of keeping this post shorter than the encyclopedia let’s just use weight training as an answer.

You can lose body fat by engaging in weight training. Now ask yourself how can you get started with weight training?

You could read a book on weight lifting and follow along.

You could look on You Tube at weight lifting videos and follow along.

You could go to the gym and hire a personal trainer and start training. Or you could just get a friend to help you get started and start training with them.

Notice that each answer has 2 parts. The first is what to do. The second is to do it.

Why did I bold the above. Because that is the key to succeeding in anything in life.

If you just research what to do, that is okay, but it doesn’t get you anywhere.

You only succeed when you actually do something. In this case it is weight lifting.

You have to actually do weight lifting. This will help you achieve your overall goal of losing body fat.

There is no other way. You can’t just read or research about weight lifting. You can’t pay someone to do it for you. You can’t ask your friends to do it for you.

You have to do it. You use your research (the what to do) to figure out how often you need to weight lift. How to do the exercises. How much weight to lift.

Then you put your plan together with all the above criteria. Then you go do it.

For example your action plan might be that you weight train 3 days a week. You pick a weight you can lift for 10 times and train with that to start. You ask someone (trainer, friend, video, book, pictures) to find out how to do the exercises.

Then you do it. Your overall goal is to lose body fat. You do that with weight lifting. You learn how and plan how to do the weight lifting.

Then all that is left is to do it.

Now here is another key. Whatever your weight lifting routine is, do it for 36 days. That means if you decide to weight lift for 3 days a week, you do this for at least 36 days (5 weeks = 35 days + 1 day into the 6th week).

This does 2 things. It gives you enough time to evaluate whether weight lifting is helping you lose body fat. (Evaluation is another thing the goal gurus forgot.)

The second thing the 36 days does we will talk about in the next post on how to pick your fitness goals.

I was wondering what is up with that weird avatar??? I know 5am is early and I’m not looking my best at that hour, but I hope I don’t look like this! I might however make that face if I’m asked to do 100 pushups. lol

, This information is really good and I will say will always be helpful if we try it risk free.. So if you can back it up … That will really help us all. And this might bring some good repute to you. The diet of human beings prior to the arrival of agriculture, technology and civilization is known as the Paleolithic Diet .. This Stone Age diet, in short, consisted of mainly lean red meat and vegetables. In this type of diet animal meat is consumed in large quantities and 45 to 65% of the energy needed by the body is derived from it. Over and over again, life expectancy studies related to diet, including by the World Health Organization (WHO), have concluded that Americans and Europeans would do better to eat more like third world peoples as the options provided by their additional wealth have most often lead to poor nutritional choices. This is the same basis for the USDA based their popular food pyramid in 1993 .. Researchers at Harvard have only suggested perhaps tweaking the food pyramid by replacing some dairy products and read meat with more fruits, vegetables, and fish while also emphasizing the importance of improving the ratio of “good” to “bad” cholesterol, Plus, exercise not only makes weight loss much easier, but also lowers blood glucose levels, decreases blood pressure, improved circulation, and increases one’s metabolism. Good regular sleep patterns are also just as important. Diets based on USDA recommendations include DASH, American Diabetic Assoc, Weight Watchers, and Jenny Craig… When children understand how important “real food” is and where the natural ingredients of our food come from, they will increase the general population’s appreciation for preserving our natural environment and limiting toxins and polluting processes in our world. We may even trend back to the time when people stepped outside their homes to interact with family and neighbors in home and community gardens and block-party barbeques.. Does anybody even remember how nice those days were?

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Mic

Commented on September 16, 2010 at 12:17 am |

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Mic

Commented on September 16, 2010 at 12:24 am |

Hi Gilbert,
I did check out your site. Here’s the thing. I believe you can change your body and body parts via nutrition and exercise. I have never seen any evidence of any kind of pill that can specifically burn fat in one part of the body. I will talk about this in an upcoming post.

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Mic

Commented on September 17, 2010 at 1:07 am |

I do plan on doing a bunch of You Tube videos in the future. I’ll keep you posted.